My own horseback guess is we must disengage, as skillfully as we can,
from unproductive aspects our China policy, e.g., UN membership where
we're likely to get clobbered and later on Offshores in order
rationalize our posture for long term struggle with hard-line CPR.

If we move soon we may be able get UK,
India, etc. buy enough of a “two Chinas” policy to make Peiping refuse
UN membership, thus gaining us credit
for being reasonable while shifting onus to intransigeant CPR.

2 The letters “US”
are handwritten on the source text in the place of the letters “VP”,
which are crossed out.

3 Komer elaborated his views in
a 41-page paper, dated April 7 and entitled “Strategic Framework for
Rethinking China Policy.” It recommended “a middle road, aimed at
the existing goal of long-run containment of the CPR” and called for “greater tactical
flexibility, and disengagement from the least productive aspects of
our China policy in order to rationalize it for the long pull.” It
recommended acceptance of PRC
membership in the United Nations “if we can't keep it out and can
exact a satisfactory price” and Nationalist withdrawal from the
offshore islands. (Ibid.)